Reply To: Can the severity of a sin be learned from the severity of the punishment?

Don’t it’s lashon hara to mention his name.
Why? Because you don’t agree with his convention?

(Though doesn’t the fact that you don’t want him demeaned negate his thesis a bit? Who cares what people say or how bizzare the position is if right stand by it 🙂 )
No. Not at all.
If you asked him he would tell it to you straight and proud and not care.
However he has the right to put himself in that position.
I don’t have the right to do it to someone else.
(another simple distinction missed by the one who wants to base halacha solely on his own critical thinking. Are you maybe starting to get the idea that your critical thinking may be fallible. And maybe just because it’s simple to you, it may be off base anyway ?
That’s why it’s not a good idea to be koveya things based on our own logic.)